Key facts
- Military rank.name
- Obersturmbannführer
- Military rank.image
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- Military rank.service branch
- Schutzstaffel Sturmabteilung National Socialist Motor Corps National Socialist Flyers Corps
- Military rank.abbreviation
- Ostubaf
- Military rank.NATO rank
- OF-4
- Military rank.formation
- 1933
- Military rank.abolished
- 1945
- Military rank.higher rank
- Standartenführer
- Military rank.lower rank
- Sturmbannführer
- Military rank.equivalents
- Oberstleutnant(Lieutenant Colonel)
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- Adolf Eichmann
- In fiction
- Rank insignia
- See also
- Notes
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Obersturmbannführer (, , short: Ostubaf) was a paramilitary rank in the German Nazi Party (NSDAP) which was used by the SA (Sturmabteilung) and the SS (Schutzstaffel). The rank of '' was junior to the rank of Standartenführer, and was equivalent to the military rank of Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel) in the German Army.